Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Developer Associate Questions and Answers
200 questions organized by topic with detailed explanations
Microsoft
PL-400
200 questions
6 topics
Updated May 2026Create a technical design
27 questions8 easy11 medium8 hard~13% of exam
A developer must expose a reusable Dataverse operation with a defined request and response that other code can call. Wha...A command on a model-driven form must change immediately in the browser and open a custom page for the selected record. ...A validation rule must run inside the Dataverse event pipeline and be able to stop an invalid save before the data is co...
Build Power Platform solutions
28 questions8 easy14 medium6 hard~13% of exam
Values for the same solution differ by environment and should be entered or validated during solution deployment. What s...An Azure DevOps pipeline will use Power Platform Build Tools tasks. Which task must be added once before other build too...Makers want to deploy directly from development environments and have target connections and environment variables valid...
Implement Power Apps improvements
24 questions6 easy12 medium6 hard~13% of exam
Live monitor shows many `getRows` calls and intermittent 429 errors after each `createRow`. A label formula repeatedly c...Which tool is used to trace events while a canvas app runs in Studio or as a published app?When a canvas app formula can't be delegated, how many records are processed locally by default?
Extend the user experience
25 questions8 easy13 medium4 hard~13% of exam
In a PCF control, which lifecycle method returns the values that the framework should write back from a bound property?A team wants a reusable UI extension that loads in the same context as the app, uses framework APIs, and can be packaged...Which navigation option opens a custom page as a centered dialog?
Extend the platform
70 questions18 easy36 medium16 hard~35% of exam
A cloud flow action calls a service that sometimes fails temporarily because of transient network issues. Which retry po...A large switch statement contains many branches with dozens of actions, so most runs show a long list of skipped actions...Independent items inside an `Apply to each` loop should run in parallel in a cloud flow. Which setting enables that beha...
Develop integrations
26 questions4 easy14 medium8 hard~13% of exam
An external system identifies customers by a business code instead of a Dataverse GUID, and that identifier must be used...A Dataverse webhook payload exceeds 256 KB. What happens according to the official webhook documentation?After a team enables change tracking on a Dataverse table, what can they do later if they no longer want it?
All Questions
| # | Question | Topic | Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In a PCF control, which lifecycle method returns the values that the framework should write back fro... | Extend the user experience | medium |
| 2 | An external system identifies customers by a business code instead of a Dataverse GUID, and that ide... | Develop integrations | medium |
| 3 | A cloud flow action calls a service that sometimes fails temporarily because of transient network is... | Extend the platform | medium |
| 4 | A large switch statement contains many branches with dozens of actions, so most runs show a long lis... | Extend the platform | medium |
| 5 | A developer must expose a reusable Dataverse operation with a defined request and response that othe... | Create a technical design | medium |
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